The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-12-15
sAksER-sHop FOR WOMEN,
Where They Can lave Hair Cut or
n shampoo.

new thing. says The New York SIN.
In the tonsorial line is woman's bar
ber-shop-not mere hairdressing
establishment, but shop where wo-
men can run in any time of the day and
have anything, from plain hair-cut to
4 shampoo. just rs man can in
culinary barber-shops. There is large
ORD on Fourteenth street 1t is differ
ent in some respects from a male
shop. but its general prlncp pie is the
same. It does not have a striped pole
for sign, for fear 1t might be mistaken
for hosiery emporium, perhaps, and
Its interior decorations lack the giddy
Awealth of high cigarette art and the
nix weekly literary attractions that are
SO lavish feature of the places where
men are shaved. 1t is up in the third
story, oyer store where ladies COM
plexons and figures are sold, and its
furnishing is quietly suggestive OF II
pnrlor with three OF four chairs in n
row along one side. They are not the
complicated arrangements with patent
head rests. trap-door backs. and other
attachments that are necessary to put Il
man into position to have his beard
taken OIL. The chairs are plain, every
day chairs. not even armchairs. A
counter and showcase in one part of
the room are dimly resemblant to the
case of shaving soap and twenty-five
cents for ten Connecticut Havana
cigars of The male shop. There are
five BARRIERS in the Fourteenth street
shop, and one woman TO tend the
counter. She has not yet been educated
up 10 chase customers about with q
whisp, periodically calculate "Shine.
ma ann or fill tho other duties of
regular barber's assistant.
The patrons of the shop buy a check
in the store downstairs. For plain
ha r-c;;t il is 80 cents. a shampoo costs
\ so cents extra, and for n quarter extra
Ia guaranteed. cant.be old-from-life
complexion will be put on.
Upstairs the patrons sit in row
along the wall, and wait for the first
barber at leisure to call out:
"Naixt Five seventy-two ~
The woman with check 572 steps for
ward, her wraps removed. and puts
herself at his mercy A deft touch and
two motions place her in the chair
facing big mirror.
''Vat will IL be Pr
81 want my hair cut"
''Ou; how will it be pr
Pointed, please, and cut back on
each side.
''Ou. oui; short or long P"
"Just medium think"
''Oui, oui, ou y
Two whisks and a jerk place huge
calico bib around the victims neck,
and a few delicate and lingering touch
es tuck Il away under the collar. Then
the airpins come out and three pulls
and twist bring the hair down in a
cataract over the back of the clair.
Then with bottle of tonic or some
thing in one hand the woman's front
hair in tho other. the barbar alternates
squrs of the liquor with vigorous pulls
and rubs of the hair.
"Do hurt ? Oui! No! Ah!'
Then with pair of scissors in the |
hand that held the bottle. seventeen
hourshes and FIVE ships cuts the stray
ing ends of the bangs into The desired |
. shape.
..Dus 1t suit? No! Gui! AIR
More tlourishcs and several long |
slashes trim the ends of the long hair |
to fitting evenness. and then one dab |
loads a finger with vaseline, and an |
infnity of rubs and plunges gets it |
th oroughly into the front hair
"Ah!"
One pose and three motions satisfy |
~. .i.... l,n 10, al. s..
and he dashes on to gas-stove and
yets long curlIng-iron. A gngerer-
ly touch and smothered d-m prove
that this is not all right at all, and it
takes q dozen weird brandshes through
the air TO reduce il to proper degree
of temperature.
'.Za ees better
ut takes three twirls and seven mo-
tons to curl every lock of har and
stand off and pose 90 with every
curl. All the time the barber is chat
tering French with The other four men,
and the hapless victim, unless she un-
derstands French and knows that the
talk is to the effect that IL is n nice dav
to-day, and they are 60 ng to get a new
GIRL at Mrs. La Peters boarding house,
imagines all sorts of dire comment
ipud chaff about herself passing back
and forth.
'Ahr'
A final pose and grand sw6op puts
the curling iron away. and then. with
both hands advanced and an air of
timidiiy. the barber approaches until
his outstretched finger tips nestle in the
hair of either temple. Three different
sets of swift carressing touches, with